Scots Guards

The Scots Guards is one of the foot guards regiments of the British Army, formed in 1642 as a bodyguard unit by King Charles I of England shortly before the English Civil War. The Scots Guards were deployed overseas to Spain during the Peninsular War, to France during World War I, to North Africa and Italy during World War II, to Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, to Northern Ireland during the Troubles, to the Falkland Islands during the Falkands War, and to Iraq during the Iraq War (for just one year, 2004).